The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-18
YOUNG UTAH.

munic pal election in Ogden, the sons
of Mormons did not unite with them
and vote for the Liberal ticket. The
efforts OF the anti-Mormons for years
have been directed towards leading the
children of Mormon parentage away
from their fathers and mothers, and
inducing them to join with
those who a-e making war upon the
Mormon people. Of what degree Of
success these efforts have been attended
we may Judge by noting the percentage
of young men who nave identified
themselves with the Liberals, and by
scanning the election returns. In
Ogden, on Monday, The Mormon young
men, with such few exceptions as to
surprise the Mormons themselves,
advocated, legged for ana voted the
Peoples party ticket; they were not
only true to their training, but were
true to the parents who had given them
life and reared them to manhood; they
were both grateful and loyal, and
could not be led astray by the fatter-
ing but false promises of those so bent
on using them for evil. The experience
in Ogden is but the experience in every
other part of the Territory. The young
men are proving themselves worthy
the true and tried fathers and mothers
who have devoted SO much of their
lives to the establishment and main
tenance Of civil and religious liberty.
But why should the Liberals be sur
prised that SO few Mormon-raised
young men join their ranks? Why
should anybody, with ordinary in
telligence and any knowledge of
human nature, expect those young men
to turn Liberal, as that word is IN
derstood in Utah? Is there anything
in the Liberal creed encouraging or in
viting to boy who has been taught to
love right and admire fairness and JUS
tice? Is there anything in the conduct
of the Liberal party suggestive of up
Brightness, of political honesty, of re-
gard for equality among men? On the
contrary, have not the Liberals from
the first taken course to drive from
them the fairminded and truth-loving?
Have not the young Mormons seen
that the policy and efforts of the Liber-
ais have all the time been reprehensibls
and vicious? That the Liberals have
hesitated at nothing vile or unfair
which would tend to their success?
That their object has ever been the
requirement Of power to be misused
Have not tue young Mormons seen that
vice in Liberal was protected and
made q virtue, while a tri1ing offense in
a Mormon was magnifed into a gross
crime? Have not the young men of
this country seen vile wretches of Lib
erals denounce and make war upon
worthy institutions and good men and
women? Haye-not the Mormon boys
learned, through observance that per-
secution, injustice and a denial of hui
man and civil rights are considered
virtues in the Liberal creed?
Then comes in the fact that blood is
thicker than water. which makes it I'M
natural and improbable that the young
Mormons should turn against their
fathers and mothers, and enroll them
selves in the ranks of those who are
waging unholy warfare against hon
ored and loved parents. Now and
then there is a young Mormon with
peculiarly diseased mind and NAL
formed nature, who makes himself hail
fellow with the men who are branding
his pure and virtuous mother as pros
titute, and denouncing his father as a
criminal; but to the credit of human
nature and to parental training there
are few such depraved specimens in
Utah. There may be young men who
i > not accept the religion of their pa
rents just as there are young men else
where who cannot believe as their
fathers and mothers believe; but these
are not going to violate one of the high
est and best laws of nature, and unite
with a gang of Adventures bent on the
persecution and spoliation of kind and
indulgent parents
1t is not surprise that the young
Mormons do not join hands with the
Liberals, and help along a scheme
which mas for its objects the cruel per
s scuion of the men and women who
have maize this Territory whatit is. and
the deprivation of the people OF their
hard ned possessions. 1t would be a
matter OF very great establishment If |
these young men We're to unite with the |
Liberals. and permit themselves to be
used to further the scoundrelIy schemes
of the men who are trying so ha,d to
bring ruin and destruction upon fair
Utah.
THE BILL is not yet law, and if it